Ok, I have watched this for too long to keep silent.
Yes, you should be able to pull it. It is fricken sand! I pulled mine with my H in black prairie soil doing my garden and it worked fine. I was in 1st gear bc of the small space, but it worked.
No, this is not the best setup to super farm with. If this is your main occupation and main source of income, get a new setup. If you are only going to plow 5-10 acres a year it will work just fine. They have other gears besides 3rd and 4th! You could go in second and plow about .75 acres/hour.
Now, this fall I plowed two acres for the neighbor using my SMTA and number 8(?) 3-14 plow. This worked just fine especially when my 78 year old neighbor helped me set it up. We were plowing 7-8 inches deep in 3rd. When the frost moved in there were a few spots with a little wheel slip, but not too bad. A little left brake and it was just fine. The SMTA was in pulling mode with 13.6 Firestone Field & Roads and 4 sets of rear wheel weights. They probably helped quite a bit. It took me 2.5 hours, but the field was a big triangle so there was a lot of dead heading and I ran out of gas... :oops:
With all that said, my neighbor couldn't pull 3-14's with his SM. I thought he said it was loaded, but he may not have replaced the fluid in the one side when it went flat. That is why I discount his story some. I am positive he didn't have it set up very well and it was OLD hay ground. It would work, but he carried the front end from headland to headland.
This post was edited by sflem849 at 05:42:51 12/19/09.
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